venturer who can achieve the means of putting himself forward commences his political career on an avowed speculation of profit and loss; and if he fails. to negociate his political job, will endeavour to extort it by faction and sedition, and with unblushing effrontery will fasten his own corruption on the King's Ministers. English influence is the inexhaustible theme for popular irritation and distrust. Our present connection, therefore, must continue to generate national discontent and perpetuate faction and misgovernment.' Let me close this book with one more extract from the same speech. It contains a promise which still waits to be completely fulfilled-which will be fulfilled only when English statesmen of all parties shall have at last awakened to a remembrance of their responsibilities, and shall have determined that Ireland shall be excluded henceforth and for ever from the sphere of permitted party politics. 'If we are to pursue the beaten course of faction and folly, I have no scruple to say it were better for Great Britain that Ireland should sink into the sea than continue attached to the British Crown on the terms of our present connection. Our difficulties arise from an Irish war-a war of faction, a Whig war, a United Irishmen's war. It has been demanded, how are we to be relieved by a Union? I answer, we are to be relieved from British and Irish faction, which is the prime source of all our calamities. When I look at the squalid misery of the mass of the Irish people I am sickened with the rant of Irish dignity and independence. I hope I feel as becomes a true Irishman for the dignity and independence of my country. I would therefore elevate her to her CHAP. II. 1800. BOOK X. 1800. I proper station in the rank of civilised nations. would advance her from the degraded post of a mercenary province to the proud station of an integral and governing member of the greatest empire in the world.' INDEX. A ABB BBEYS, suppression of, i. 40 Abbott, iii. 318 Abduction made felony, i. 418 Abercrombie, Sir Ralph, iii. 306-310, 327, Abjuration Oath, i. 315, 333, 336, 337 Absenteeism, i. 26, 163, 216, 218, 454; ii. 22, 28, 214, 450, 453; iii. 75 Absentees, i. 40, 277-279; ii. 149, 152, 155, 193, 224, 469, 511; iii. 450 Adet, M., minister of the French Repub- Adrian IV., Pope, i. 16 Agar, Archbishop of Cashel, ii. 261 Aghrim, battle of, i. 199; iii. 353 Agitation, trade of, i. 609 Agrarian riots of 1762, ii. 27 Agrarian laws, ii. 481 Agricultural Bill. ii. 105 Aix-la-Chapelle, Peace of, ii. 71 Albemarle, Earl of, i. 220, 222 Alnager, duties of, ii. 169 America, battle of, ii. 83; compared with American army, ii. 281, 284 ASS American Revolution, iii. 3, 6 American war, iii. 235, 384 Amherst, Lord, ii. 215, 216 note Ancient Britons, iii. 354, 359, 361, 420 Ancram, Lord, iii. 402, 403 Anderson, a smuggler, i. 493 Andrews, Dr., Provost of Trinity College, Anglican system, i. 156 'Annals of Lough Cé,' i. 31 Anne Queen, i. 284, 304, 353 note, 360 Antrim, Earl of, i. 86, 88, 181, 182, 404 153, 177, 188, 303, 399, 425, 426 Aristocracy, English, iii. 3; of Ireland, Arklow, iii. 398, 401, 402, 403, 419, 420, Armada, i. 57 Armagh, ii. 131, 436; iii. 153, 162 note Armstrong, Captain, iii. 340, 474 Army, state of the, i. 98, 99, 358; ii. Army Bill, ii. 66 Arnold, General, ii. 281, 284 Asgill, Mr., i. 300, 356 Ashton, Sir Arthur, i. 123, 124, 195 Ashton, Mr., i. 169, 170 Ashton, Sir William, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, ii. 26, 27 Assassination, iii. 167, 270, 320, 368 Assassination Bill, iii. 170 Assassination Committee, iii. 250, 289 Assassination Plot, i. 250, 254, 259 Assembly, National, iii. 76 BOS Athanasius Secundus, ii. 81 note Athlone, i. 57, 194, 198; ii. 126; iii. 258 Athlone Parliament, iii. 112 Atterbury, Bishop, i. 559 Avonmore, Lord. See Yelverton BACK ACK LANE PARLIAMENT, iii. 70 Bale, John, Bishop of Ossory, i. 42 Ballinamuck, iii. 484 Ballyhack Passage, iii. 436 Ballyhige House, or Castle, i. 478 Bandon, emigration from, ii, 126 Bantry Bay, i. 156, 186, 204, 206, 230, 262, 263, 287 Barclay, Alexander, iii. 20 Barnewell, Mr., i. 580, 581 Barnwalle, Robert, ii. 15. Barrington, Sir Jonah, i. 510; ii. 357, 359, 448 note, 475 note, 515 note Bathurst, Lord, ii. 77 Bastile, ii. 519; iii. 10, 11, 17, 19, 399 Bedford, Duke of, iii. 239 Bedford, Duke of, Viceroy, i. 422, 613, Belfast, i. 319, 623; ii. 77, 105, 119, 132, 141, 232, 292, 368, 410, 419; iii. 17, 179, 183, 187, 190, 196, 217, 225, 235, Belfast Committee, ii. 201, 265 Beling, Richard, i. 103 note, 125 note Bellingham, Sir Edward, i. 42 Bellew, Christopher, iii. 70 Bellew, Lord, at Aghrim, i. 221 note, 256 Bellew, Walter, i. 221 note Bentinck, Duke of Portland, i. 222; ii. Bere Island, iii. 205, 210, 212 Beresford, iii. 26, 41 Beresford, Mr. John, ii. 104 note, 107 Berkeley, George (afterwards Bishop of Berkeley, Lord, Lord-Lieutenant, i. 165 Bessborough, Earl of, ii. 46, 47, 150, 152; Bill of Rights Battalion, ii. 393 Birch, Robert, ii. 109 note Bishops, i. 323; iii. 62 Bishops of Ireland, ii. 449, 452 Black Dog, prison so called, i. 592 note Blake, Martin, i. 374 note Blaquiere, Sir John de, Colonel, ii. 145, 153, 154, 176 note, 178, 179, 187, 394, ainick, i. 442-445 Bodkin murder, the, 441-445 Bodkin, Oliver, of Carnbane, i. 441 Bolton, Duke of, Viceroy, i. 388, 401, 555 Bonaparte, iii. 192, 197, 265, 282, 287, Bond, Oliver, iii. 105, 283, 315, 317, 452, Boolavogue, iii. 378 Borlase, Sir John, i. 82, 85 BOS Bosworth Field, i. 29 Boulter, Hugh, Archbishop of Armagh, Bourbon, Duc de, ii. 338 Bowes, Lord, Chancellor, i. 625; ii. 56 Boyle, Richard, second Earl of Shannon, Boyle, Roger, Lord Broghill, third son Boyles, the, ii. 5 Boyne, battle of the, i. 194; ii. 22 Bramhall, John, Bishop of Derry, i. 91, Brandywine, the, ii. 202 Bray, ii. 237; iii. 419 Breadstreet, Recorder of Dublin, ii. 295 Brest, iii. 201, 202, 230, 248, 263 Brewer, Mr., iii. 362 Bridges the informer, ii. 29. 30 Bridport, Lord, iii. 214, 230 Bristol, iii. 23, 201 Bristol, Earl of, Viceroy, ii. 44, 380, 382, 383, 386, 392, 393, 398, 399 British Fencibles, iii. 306 British fleet, iii. 195, 198, 200, 201 Brodrick, Alan, Solicitor-General, i. 232; Brodrick, Alan, son of the last, i. 389, Broghill, Lord, i. 143, 144; created Earl Brooke, Sir Arthur, ii. 109 note Brown, Dennis ii. 439, 495; iii. 26, 31, Brown, General, ii. 127 Browne, Mr., member for the University, 423, 424, 428, 430, 434, 435, 468, 510 207, 217, 222, 224, 232, 233, 242, 246, САМ 487, 489, 490, 493, 494, 504, 504 note, Buller, Sir Francis, iii. 318 Bunker's Hill, ii. 141 and note, 174; iii. Burder, Captain, ii. 214 Burdett, Sir Francis, iii. 227, 228, 319 Burgh, Hussey, ii. 223, 227; Prime Ser- Burgh, Mr., ii. 477 Burgoyne, General, ii. 202, 208, 374, 392 Burke, Right Hon. Edmund, ii. 214, 215, Burke, Richard, iii. 33, 34, 37, 38, 49, Burkes, origin of the, i. 24 Burke of Clanrickarde, i. 87 Burrows, Mrs., iii. 379 Burrowes, Peter, iii. 10 Bushe, Gervase, Provost, ii. 310 Bushe, Mr., ii. 155, 185, 258, 261; iii. 102 Bute, Lord, ii. 34 Butler, Mary, ii. 33 Butler, Mr., iii. 299 Butler, Simon, iii. 20, 105, 109, 117 Butler, Sir Theobald, i. 314 Butlers, the, i. 30, 34, 52, 53, 55 CAHIR, Lord, iii. 328 Cahir, iii. 328 Camden, battle of, ii. 206 Camden, Lord, ii. 247, 265; viceroy, iii. 137, 138-140, 141, 143, 144, 155, 163, |